Pakistan would carefully examine the Bonn declaration, says Pakistani Foreign Minister

Pakistani Foreign Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, has assured her German counterpart that Pakistan would carefully examine the Bonn declaration. German Foreign Minister, Dr. Guido Westerwelle, reportedly called Khar to take Pakistan into confidence on the outcome
of the Bonn Conference on Afghanistan on Tuesday, December 6.

Pakistan boycotted the conference in the protest against the NATO attack at Mohmand Agency, which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers while injuring 13 others. However, World leaders had urged Pakistan to reconsider its decision.

The German Foreign Minister has expressed the hope that Pakistan would continue its support in bringing peace and development in Afghanistan.

Khar thanked her German counterpart for taking Pakistan into confidence. She asserted that stability in Afghanistan was essential for bringing peace in the region.

“It was therefore necessary that all worked together on the basis of mutual respect to attain the shared objective”, the Pakistani Foreign Minister said.

She further added that Pakistan was resolved to continue striving for peace and prosperity in the region, and acknowledged Germany’s valuable contributions in bringing about peace in Afghanistan.

The Bonn Declaration stated that Al-Qaida has been disrupted and Afghanistan’s national security institutions are increasingly able to assume responsibility for a secure and independent Afghanistan.

However, it also indicated that shortcomings must be addressed with the goal of creating a peaceful Afghanistan in which international terrorism does not again find sanctuary and that can assume its rightful place among sovereign nations.

The declaration concluded by saying that as foreign forces leave Afghanistan a “decade of transformation” should begin “in which Afghanistan consolidates its sovereignty”.

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